title: Real-time quality control: the French Minitel system.
abstract: A prototype system designed to provide real-time response to inter-laboratory proficiency testing results has been developed using the French Minitel telecommunication system. This nationwide computer networking system allows for instantaneous reporting and evaluation of results obtained on external quality assessment (EQA) samples. If a certain test is in error and presumably out of control the problem can be remedied immediately with obvious advantages to patient care.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Laboratoire d'Immuno-Hématologie, Boulogne, France.
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authors.lastname: Goguel
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authors.lastname: LeBlanc
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000592:standards*; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D005602:France; D006405:Hematology / Q000592:standards*; D011786:Quality Control